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EDGAR v6.0 Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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EDGARv6.0 provides emissions of the three main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and fluorinated gases per sector and country.

CO2 emissions are provided separately for CO2_excl_short-cycle_org_C and CO2_short-cycle_org_C. Emissions of CO2_excl_short-cycle_org_C include all fossil CO2 sources, such as fossil fuel combustion, non-metallic mineral processes (e.g. cement production), metal (ferrous and non-ferrous) production processes, urea production, agricultural liming and solvents use. Large scale biomass burning with Savannah burning, forest fires, and sources and sinks from land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) are excluded.

For the energy related sectors the activity data are primarily based on IEA data from IEA (2019) World Energy Balances, (Internet: link), All rights reserved, as modified by Joint Research Centre, European Commission, whereas the activity data for the agricultural sectors originate primarily from FAO (2020) (Internet: link). United States Geological Survey (USGS), International Fertiliser Association (IFA), Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)/U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), UNFCCC and World Steel Association (worldsteel) recent statistics are also used for activity data. Additional information can be found in Crippa et al. (2021).

Compared to EDGARv5.0 the following updates have been included:

- updates of all activity data up to 2018

- inclusion of CO2 emissions from coal mining based on the IPCC 2019 refinements

- new international shipping proxies and monthly profiles (Jalkanen et al. (2012), Johansson et al. (2017))

Contributors

Diego Guizzardi; Edwin Schaaf; Efisio Solazzo; Eleonora Lo Vullo; Elisabetta Vignati; Fabio Monforti-Ferrario; Jos Olivier; Marilena Muntean; Monica Crippa

How to cite

Crippa, Monica; Guizzardi, Diego; Muntean, Marilena; Schaaf, Edwin; Lo Vullo, Eleonora; Solazzo, Efisio; Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio; Olivier, Jos; Vignati, Elisabetta (2026): EDGAR v6.0 Greenhouse Gas Emissions. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.787T5VR PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/97a67d67-c62e-4826-b873-9d972c4f670b

Keywords

CH4CO2emissionsF-gasesglobalgreenhouse gasinventorymonthlyN2O

Data access

EDGARv6.0_GHG: greenhouse gas emissions gridmaps
NetCDF

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Downloadable file

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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • For each sector annual gridmaps (1970-2018) are provided for all substances. For each sector monthly gridmaps (2018) are provided for all substances using the temporal distribution profiles described in Crippa et al. (2020).

EDGARv6.0_GHG: greenhouse gas emissions timeseries
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Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • For each substance emission timeseries (1970-2018) by sector and country are provided in an overview table.

Spatial coverage

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1970-01-01 2018-01-01

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-edgar (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
irregular

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Environment

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Science and technology

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Geographical name(s)
World
Issued date
2021-01-01
Created date
17 May 2021 10:01
Modified date
04 Feb 2026 10:15
Landing page
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg60 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/97a67d67-c62e-4826-b873-9d972c4f670b
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